en-CA, bills, wrapper, status

en-CA, bills, wrapper, share_this

We believe that online video is an important and growing medium for engaging with our government at every level: state, city, local, and others. Unfortunately, state legislatures generally not make video of their proceedings (e.g., legislative actions like votes and committee hearings) available in ways that meet the community-generated Principles of Open Government Data.

California- editorial note: as far as what's out there now, as of this writing: the most-central repository of official online video for bills in the CA state legislature of which we're aware is CalChannel, but they do not make their video available in ways that are fully open. So at the moment, a fair amount of research and digging is still required to access video content relevant to this bill and bills in general. But they do have some decent offerings in streaming Flash video from both chambers of the legislature, it would seem, via their customized WordPress installation.

In the future, our goal is to aggregate useful video about every bill, issue, and member of state government here on OpenGovernment, all freely-licensed and available in open standards, to share & remix -- see how you can help.

Until video of state government is liberated by its primary source, we're using the free and open-source Miro Community software to create a crowdsourced hub of publicly-available video content for branches of state government.